Engine Valve Covers for Honda Accord

Honda Accord Valve Covers

The Honda Accord is one of those cars that has become common due to its inherent reliability. When you’ve driven your Accord for more than 50,000 miles, you will almost certainly need to replace components in the valve section of your car. Replacing parts pertaining to this section of your Honda Accord takes a bit of work, and before you can consider replacement, it’s important to understand this important engine component.

The EGR valve of the Honda Accord is one of the components that makes the vehicle so efficient. When your engine expels vapor during the external combustion process, the internal heat rises. The EGR valve of this component recirculates some of the expelled vapor into the main component where it’s mixed in and actually reduces the running temperature of the combustion chamber.

Effectively, the EGR valve, which stands for exhaust gas recirculation valve, is also one of the ways that the Honda Accord reduces the amount of vehicle carbon emission that it generates. As a result, the EGR valve is an appropriate component for reducing greenhouse gasses.

Unfortunately, when the EGR system starts to degrade over time, it can cause problems with how the vehicle runs. In fact, when the EGR system starts to have issues, you can even experience problems with starting the vehicle at all, so its important to have seals on the system valves.

While V6 engines typically have two covers for the internal components, this car typically runs on a four-cylinder system. This means that you’ll only ever have to deal with a single version of this component when its parts need to be replaced. This makes the overall process fairly simple; you’ll typically need a 10 millimeter socket wrench in order to complete the replacement.

When you’re driving your Honda Accord, you are automatically generating a lot of thermal energy due to the internal combustion processes of the car itself. As a result, your car’s internal components get extremely hot, and since the gasket of your valve assembly is made of either cork or rubber, this component of your Accord will start to break down and stiffen. While this process is gradual, once it’s begun, it can be problematic because stiffer seals mean that gaps in the components seal will start to develop, which will lead to oil leaks in the interior of your Honda.